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Wendy's avatar

Nope. NOT a direct line from the ridiculous choice to cling to running Biden for far too long, to the reelection of Trump. But circle that line through the 90 million eligible voters who looked over their choices and chose to STAY HOME. They don’t get a pass when they darn well knew what was at stake, or should have. Then loop it around the media ducking coverage of the voter suppression that enabled Trump to squeak by with a percentage point among those who could and did vote.

For the love of God, please stop letting the willfully ignorant, bless their hearts, off the hook for this mess by insisting it was all Biden’s fault. If our citizenry and our media can’t embrace the truth — all of it — then no party, or inner circle in it, can save us!

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Count Zero's avatar

Yes based off election results 59% of those who did not vote bear a majority of the responsibility. Of those 41%, 49.4% percent voted for Trump and 48.8% and 1.8% for other candidates.

- You could blame the 1.8% that voted for Jill Stein. Really not effective as an argument.

- You could blame the low information voters who voted for Trump which may be estimated to be around 20%. Sure they could have made a difference.

- Logically the 59% would make more sense, those that didn't vote which would have hugely tipped the balance had they made the choice to perform their civic duty. Who were these people? A portion were the pro-Palestinian vote we know. How much of a percentage of non-voters were they? Hard to say. Let's pretend for arguments sake it wasn't large but significant like 5%. Would they be to blame? More so than the people who blame Biden, or Harris for that matter.

Was Palestine worth sacrificing democracy over? I'll never believe that. I think continuing to protest and making a convincing argument to go a different direction would have been more effective. I think Harris missed an opportunity to bring those people back in, even if it meant sacrificing her position, much like Trump did with RFK Jr. but she didn't. That was on her. But largely it was the non-voting electorate that got us here.

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Jochanan Sa'ar's avatar

The "Biden fucked us" argument would be more availing if it wasn't such a close election. The results are totally overdetermined. Sure, every little thing matters, and if it makes people feel better to scapegoat Biden, fine. But it sure seems like of all of these little things people have a lot more smoke for Biden—who did get out of the way, people seem to forget—than any other similar factor.

What's another similar factor? People like Krystal Ball depressing the turnout of Dem voters with bullshit like Uncommitted and so on.

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